...Susan Willis Duke University Press 2003 What Goes Around Comes Around
A PARABLE OF GLOBAL WARFARE
The month following the U.S. commemoration of the thousands who died Susan Willis
in the attacks on the World Trade Center brought a new...

...Patrick Jagoda The contemporary military doctrine of “network-centric warfare” has favored a decentralized approach to both humanitarian interventions and “warfighting.” In reframing enmity as network antagonism, the United States has focused on a new type of anti-American enemy: the terrorist...

... the military imperatives of the very White government that subjected them to the assaults of racism through legal sanction. Central to this problem was the ritual power of civil religion, particularly the role of death in warfare. By risking their lives through military service, African American...

... the future. If the prospect of an endless war on
terror is less than appealing, it at least offers the compensations of proving
“our” technological and economic superiority. The seductive mythology of
high-tech, postmodern warfare still enshrined in the mythic active-combat
phase of the...

... autumn of 2006.1 Urban Resolve is
perhaps the U.S. military’s most frank admission that the megacities of
the global South are likely to be the predominant loci of future warfare.
Indeed, JFCOM’s description of the exercise acknowledges the increasing
primacy of urban combat:
The explosive...

... appears to the left of a map that tracks the
movements of insurgent slaves, Maroons, British military groups, and
planter militias during 1760. The map portrays animated warfare across
the variegated landscape of Jamaica, but the written passage is heart...

...
overcoming, it
survive?” but “what does it do with its excess?” In his reading, destruction
must be central to social organization. Warfare, sacrifice, religious devo- also always builds
tion, monuments, art, and gifts all constitute forms of waste and excess;
only a healthy society partakes in such...

... and global warfare.19 ﬁ les remain
Along with the territorial ambiguities that the new warfare-as-crime-
ﬁ ghting entails, a new biopolitics is emerging. The criminalization of signiﬁ cant, but
military adversaries has been accompanied by a biometric approach to
intelligence and...

... mode of measuring success is seldom
analyzed in the context of asymmetric or unconventional warfare that liberal
regimes wage ostensibly for the improvement, or liberalization, or democ-
ratization of others. Affect in today’s counterinsurgencies has a...

... permanent warfare that underwrites both the international intensification of Islamophobia and the emergence and deployment of an expanding set of security apparatuses whose categorical, geographic, and historical permeability define warfare as radically open-ended. Rather than organize our inquiry around...

... with a little
money had been allowed to purchase land in some of the most baboon-­
and monkey-­infested smallholder farms called Native Purchase Areas
160 Mavhunga • Vermin Beings
(NPAs). Thallium warfare against...

... that
modern power’s engagement with life pacifies societies while exacerbat-
ing the problem of war intersocially to the point where it is the life of the
species itself that is at stake in practices of modern warfare. In Society...

... this mode
of warfare on U.S. soil in the mode of an attack. For almost a century, the
residents of the United States have clung to that illusion by which the bar-
barism of civilization’s total war was imagined as something out there...

... disconnection,
of informational warfare, and new forms of knowledge and power (from
public relations to public communication and perception management)
that address not so much the play of meaning but the overall dynamics of...

... haphazard and decentralized
tactics of the local militia, and the rough-terrain warfare of Maroon allies,
each of which traversed the landscape in distinctive ways.
The project’s graphic design articulates its historical interpretation...

.... In this era of the Hitler-Stalin pact, left-wing social workers also
characterized welfare as “the ﬁrst line of national defense” against Roo-
sevelt’s stepped-up war production and growing militarized economy.7
Gwen Barclay called for “welfare, not warfare,” and...

... technology show. In the world of the Bug’s London
Zoo, we enter a terrain of sound based in a concept of frequency as power
and sound as warfare. The Bug and a number of his dub-­influenced musi-
cal contemporaries form an intelligentsia of sorts. Kevin Martin has an
academic relationship to his music...